Getting Started with Filmora

Filmora is an easy to use, affordable, and simple video editing software. Filmora comes with many features out of the box; filters, merge, split, trim, crop, contrast, and many others. FIlmora is a simple video editing software similar to iMovie or Windows Movie Maker, it’s not an alternative for Vegas, Premiere, Resolve and the likes.

Learning Filmora would be helpful for small YouTube content creators, home videos, teachers creating small educational videos for students, and editing action cam videos.

The aim of this post is to present and compare between free online sources that beginners can rely on to learn Filmora, the sources stated here are full-structured courses that beginners can follow along.

Getting Started with Filmora from Scratch

Wondershare Website

Wondershare Website is the first outlet where beginners can start learning Filmora through mainly text tutorials (there are some video tutorials). You don’t have to register to have access to the training.

Structure: The training is divided into 7 sections, each section is divided into lessons and each of the lessons covers a certain tool/technique in Filmora.

Interface: the interface is simple, click on the section you’re interested in from the side menu, then select the lesson/topic you’re interested in learning more about and you’ll be directed to the page where the lesson resides.

Now the pros and cons:

Pros

Free.

The training covers the basics beginners should be familiarized with in order to start using Filmora.

The training is well-structured and organized for complete beginners.

Cons

Not all of the lessons are available as videos, which might be a problem for some.

Verdict: This is the best free online outlet where beginners can start learning to use Filmora through text tutorials.